Hi, I'm trying to build a gcc cross compiler for target powerpc-linux-gnuspe. The binutils bulds without any problem but I'm not sure why building gcc fails. There is a description at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/download.html : > If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing > installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your OS), > unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or a > separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any components > of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler (bfd, binutils, > gas, gprof, ld, opcodes, ...) to the directory containing the GCC sources. Let's take an example: I downloaded binutils-2.20.tar.bz2 and gcc-core-4.4.2.tar.bz2. Then I did: $ tar xjvRf gcc-core-4.4.2.tar.bz2 $ cd gcc-4.4.2 $ tar xjvRf ../binutils-2.20.tar.bz2 $ ln -s binutils-2.20 binutils $ cd .. $ mkdir gcc-build $ cd gcc-build $ ../gcc-4.4.2/configure --target=powerpc-linux-gnuspe --prefix=/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc --disable-shared --disable-threads --enable-languages=c $ make When executing this procedure the build fails with: checking for powerpc-linux-gnuspe-gcc... /usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/bin/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/lib/ -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/include -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/sys-include checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/usr/src/gcc-build/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. make[1]: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gcc-build' make: *** [all] Error 2 In the file powerpc-linux-gnuspe/libgcc/config.log I can find the following messages: configure:2393: /usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-lin ux-gnuspe/bin/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/lib/ -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc- linux-gnuspe/include -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/sys-include -V </dev/null >&5 xgcc: '-V' must come at the start of the command line configure:2396: $? = 1 configure:2415: /usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-lin ux-gnuspe/bin/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/lib/ -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc- linux-gnuspe/include -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/sys-include -o conftest -g -O2 c onftest.c >&5 /usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/as: line 76: exec: : not found configure:2418: $? = 1 configure:2590: checking for suffix of object files configure:2611: /usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-lin ux-gnuspe/bin/ -B/home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/lib/ -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc- linux-gnuspe/include -isystem /home/nmarci/usr/local/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/sys-include -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 /usr/src/gcc-build/./gcc/as: line 76: exec: : not found configure:2614: $? = 1 It seems that the script gcc/as tries to execute an empty string. In gcc/as I can see that ORIGINAL_AS_FOR_TARGET="". So what's wrong with the procedure? Regards, Márton Németh
